BAMAKO Fresh fighting broke out in the streets of the Malian rebel bastion of Kidal on Monday, the local government and residents told AFP, after Tuareg separatists and the army exchanged gunfire the night before.

NAIROBI – Somalia’s Shebab Islamists insisted Monday that no woman joined them in an attack on Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall, dismissing speculation that British ‘White Widow’ Samantha Lewthwaite took part in the massacre.

Kenyan troops and rescue workers scoured the wreckage of a Nairobi shopping mall Wednesday for bodies and booby-trapped explosives after a four-day siege by Islamist gunmen left 67 dead and dozens more missing. Rescuers wore face masks and some soldiers …